Here’s the kitchen sink for February 28, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for February 28, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

The Anatomy of an o1 Prompt: Nice breakdown of how to write a good prompt for o1 from someone who should know – OpenAI President Greg Brockman.

The End of Humane AI Pin: HP’s Strategic Shift Toward AI Integration: Did you know that there was a wearable device that was once seen as a futuristic, screen-free alternative to smartphones? Neither did I. Rob Robinson knew and he discussed how the wearable will lose all features connected to Humane’s servers, including calling, messaging, AI queries, and cloud access – now that the company has been acquired by HP.

Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code: The researchers call it “emergent misalignment,” and they are still unsure why it happens. Of course, this isn’t the first time that AI has praised AI after training.

Grok’s new “unhinged” voice mode can curse and scream, simulate phone sex: By default, “unhinged” mode curses, insults, and belittles the user non-stop using vulgar language. Other modes include “Sexy” (marked as “18+” and acts almost like a 1-800 phone sex operator). Um, why do we need these? 🤔 Hey, at least it isn’t praising Nazis!

Susman Godfrey Lawsuit Alleges Google AI Models Reap Illegal Monopoly Profits: The latest online publisher to sue an AI company for misappropriation of their copyrighted content, this time it’s Chegg, a provider of educational content to millions of student subscribers online. Why is this one different? Because they’re going after Google as a monopoly after a judge ruled last year Google maintained an unlawful monopoly for search and advertising.

What’s Superalignment and Why Is It Critical to Address with AI Regulation in the U.S.?: You might think that this article about superintelligence and superalignment is superfluous (see what I did there? 🤣), but it doesn’t ever get around to fully defining superalignment, which isn’t super. 😕 Here’s a definition: “Superalignment is the concept of ensuring that super artificial intelligence (AI) systems, which surpass human intelligence in all domains, act according to human values and goals.”

Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk: So, Grok curses, insults, and belittles the user, but won’t say bad things about Elon and The Donald. Hey, at least it isn’t praising Nazis! 😉

Bar Battle of the Bots – Part One: On the EDRM blog, Ralph Losey “put six of the most powerful AI reasoning models from OpenAI and Google to the test with a real Bar Exam essay question, a tricky one. Their responses varied widely—from sharp legal analysis to surprising omissions, and even a touch of hallucination. Who passed? Who failed?” Find out by reading his blog post!

HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support: No way! 🤣 Apparently, the wait times aimed to “influence customers to increase their adoption of digital self-solve”. To their surprise, people who call a support line aren’t excited about trying to figure it out by themselves. 🤪

“Self Help” Discovery Results in Striking of Wrongfully Obtained Evidence: Cautionary tale by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog for people looking to collect their own evidence from their employer in an employment discrimination case – doing so might get that evidence thrown out. 😮

Odour in the Court: Rhionan Evans had some issues with Deborah Prytherch, her current beau’s ex-girlfriend. So, she recorded eight videos of her passing gas, which she sent to Deborah. According to the author: “Deborah notified the police, who arrested Rhionan. She confessed to reeking havoc. I heard rumours that the police also searched her house and confiscated a case of beans. I’d say the case for the prosecution was airtight.” The judge found the accused guilty, fined her and ordered her to refrain from contacting Deborah for two years and to undergo 15 hours of rehab, making her the “butt” of our jokes this week. 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 28, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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